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vt.毁坏⁵⁷;使荒芜²⁹;使震惊¹⁴副词devastatingly名词devastation过去分词devastated现在分词devastating三单devastates
台风泥石流破坏祸
Verb:
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion overwhelm or overpower;He was devastated by his grief when his son died 来源于拉丁语动词vasto, vastare, vastavi, vastatus毁坏。
同源词：vast, waste钱博士de彻底，加强语气+vast变空+ate拉丁语动词过去分词后缀，在此用作动词后缀→使彻底变成空白⇒毁灭，摧毁
词根vas-变空来自拉丁语，过去分词形式为vast-。它和拉丁词根van-空的、vac-变空最终都源自原始印欧语词根*eue-离开，空出来，废弃。GRE红宝书de坏, vastadj 辽阔的; 大量的; 巨额的－大量弄坏－破坏
de + waste 垃圾，荒芜，使成为废物，垃圾场；de 否定 + vast 巨大，大量→巨大的不好的力量是有毁坏力的
de+vast大量+ate→ 大量弄坏→破坏; vast本身是一个单词 ，意为'广阔的、大量的'de彻底，加强语气+vast变空-ate…的拉丁语动词过去分词后缀，在此用作动词后缀→使彻底变成空白⇒毁灭，摧毁。非常记忆de德〖拼音〗+va我〖谐音〗+state国家〖熟词〗⇒德国人把我的国家毁灭了GRE难词记忆devastate→de+vast=waste 废物+ate→使成为废物→摧毁词根记忆de表加强＋vast空＋ate使…→使完全变空→破坏，毁坏词根记忆de变坏+ vast大量+ ate → 大量弄坏 ⇒破坏联想记忆de变坏+vast大量+ ate表动词→大量弄坏→毁坏近义词 ruin毁灭spoil宠坏shock震惊waste废物ravage毁坏pirate海盗destroy破坏upset心烦的despoil夺取shatter粉碎scourge灾难wreck使…失事demolish拆毁overcome战胜distress不幸overwhelm打击confound使困惑desolate荒凉的lay waste to糟蹋
动词93%,名词7%
用作及物动词They intended todevastatethe town at one stroke.他们企图一举摧毁全城。
Our Embassy wasdevastatedby three bombs of NATO.我们的使馆被北约的三枚炸弹炸毁了。
The country wasdevastatedby a long war.该国因遭到长期战争的破坏而荒废。
I wasdevastatedby the news of the wreck.我获悉失事的消息感到十分震惊。verb.demolish, destroy
同义词 ravage,raze,ruin,wreckdesecrate,desolate,despoil,devour,level,pillage,plunder,raid,sack,smash,spoil,total,trash,wastedepredate,do one in,lay waste,spoliate,stamp out,take apart,wipe off map
反义词 build,construct,create,guard,help,improve,protect,saveenrich
consumeverb destroy
annihilate,crush,decay,demolish,eat up,exhaust,expend,extinguish,lay waste,overwhelm,ravage,raze,ruin,suppress,waste,wreck
demolishverb destroy;consume
annihilate,break,bulldoze,burst,crack,crush,decimate,defeat,devastate,devour,dilapidate,dismantle,eat,flatten,gobble up,knock down,level,obliterate,overthrow,overturn,pulverize,put away,put in toilet,raze,ruin,sink,smash,smash up,take apart,take out,tear down,torpedo,total,trash,undo,wax,wipe off map,wrack,wreck
desecrateverb abuse, violate
befoul,blaspheme,commit sacrilege,contaminate,defile,depredate,desolate,despoil,devastate,devour,dishonor,make lose face,mess up,pervert,pillage,pollute,profane,prostitute,ravage,sack,spoil,spoliate,waste
desolateverb ravage, destroy
depopulate,depredate,desecrate,despoil,devastate,devour,lay low,lay waste,pillage,plunder,ruin,sack,spoliate,waste
despoilverb ravage, destroy
denude,depopulate,depredate,deprive,desecrate,desolate,devastate,devour,dispossess,divest,loot,maraud,pillage,plunder,raid,rifle,rob,sack,spoil,spoliate,strip,vandalize,waste,wreak havoc,wreck
destructverb destroy
decimate,demolish,devastate,dismantle,level,pulverize,raze,ruin,tear down,wipe out,wreck The upshot is that we’re horrifyingly nonchalant at the prospect that rising carbon emissions may devastate our favorite planet.
关键是，我们对于不断增加的碳排放可能毁坏我们地球家园的前景采取了可怕的漠视态度。 yeeyan
A US air blitz would devastate North Korea’s industry, ports, transport and political targets.
一个美国的空中突击行动将摧毁朝鲜的工业，港口，运输和政治目标。 yeeyan
As a result, they can devastate their competition in the marketplace.
其行为的结果是，他们将能够击败市场中的竞争对手。 yeeyan
China could increase interest rates to temper rising prices, but that would devastate growth.
中国可以提高利率来抑制高物价，但是这会摧毁增长。 yeeyan
In doing so they served notice that they have regained the ability to devastate armoured military vehicles.
他们这样做是想让当局明白他们已经重新掌握了破坏军队武装车辆的本领。 ecocn
It warned of huge storm surges that could devastate coastal villages and cities.
警报警告说，巨大的风暴潮可能会摧毁沿海的村庄和城市。 http://www.voa365.com
Monsoons, droughts, depleted groundwater resources, and typhoons devastate poor countries because they’re in too deep a hole economically to reduce their risk, he says.
他说，季风、干旱、枯竭的地下水资源和台风给贫困国家带来了毁灭性的灾难，因为它们深陷经济泥潭而无力减轻风险。 worldbank
Such an attack would devastate China's relationship with the West as well as with other Asian countries, and could cripple the economic growth that the party regards as so vital.
因为这样的攻击会破坏中国与西方及其他亚洲国家的关系，也会减低中国政党如此看重的经济增长的活力。 ecocn
Their next move was to found yet another start-up— this time, one that threatened to devastate the television industry.
他们的下一步打算是创建一家新兴公司，而这一次，将可能摧毁电视产业。 ecocn
When banks fail, they devastate the economy.
一旦银行倒闭，它们就会摧毁经济。 ecocn |